sense of city road
closed open open close
foodshops here have senses others don't
people trounce up city road milling spewing myriad colours
absorb absorb
glutamate agglutinate cultures
absorb
(your diaphanous seeds
life & risky exhuberance
absord)
spit sperm & sulphurous dioxides spring from sewer & roadside food spills
environpollution tastes lap rat pigeon bare cupboard residencies
side street past side street past side street
battle munch munch absorb
munch munch munch munch
battle with relish absorb
'sense of city road' was originally published in 'city & poems'
(blackhat, 1999 - now out of print)
© lloyd robson 1993, this reproduction © blackhat 2000
